Swimming Fools (Episode)

Swimming Fools
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Episode No.:	291a
Season:	13
Airdate:	August 8, 2023
Previous Episode:	Gary’s Playhouse
Next Episode:	The Goobfather
Characters	Voice actors
SpongeBob SquarePants	Tom Kenny
Squidward Tentacles	Rodger Bumpass
Patrick Star	Bill Fagerbakke
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Swimming Fools is an episode from season 13.

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Characters

Plot

The episode opens with Squidward floating face-down in a swimming pool. He narrates the events that led up to it: yesterday, he was relaxing in his backyard when SpongeBob distracted him with digging a hole in his backyard. SpongeBob explains that he is making a pool and invites Squidward to join when it is finished. Squidward refuses and goes back to relaxation, only to see SpongeBob finish his pool a few seconds later, with it coming out impressive and well-built. Squidward is overcome by jealousy as SpongeBob and Patrick begin playing in the pool.

Squidward tries to distract himself with painting, but paints a pool shaped like his head instead. His air conditioner breaks, leaving him sweating heavily from the heat. That night, he hallucinates the pool beckoning to him and decides to sneak out and swim. After a brief encounter with Gary, he realizes that SpongeBob is preparing to go to bed, leaving him to swim in peace. He climbs onto a pool float and goes into a dream of him playing the clarinet for a crowd of party guests. When he awakes, it is morning, and he realizes he spent all night in the pool.

Patrick uses Squidward as a pool toy. Patrick uses Squidward as a pool toy.

When SpongeBob and Patrick run out to use the pool, Squidward tries to hide. He goes into the pool shed and disguises himself as a pool toy. Patrick mistakes him for one and inflates him, as he and SpongeBob play in the pool. Finally having enough, Squidward comes untied and sadly admits to SpongeBob that he is jealous of the pool. SpongeBob reminds him that he is welcome and offers him a jump off the diving board. As Squidward is caught in his pool party fantasy, SpongeBob and Patrick turn up the adjustable diving board. This leaves Squidward in outer space, and he shouts that it is too high. As he clings to the underside of the board, Patrick pulls the lever out and sends the board falling. Squidward slams into the surface of the water as SpongeBob and Patrick compliment his dive. Squidward's body then falls apart and his head is sucked into the pool filter.